NickBusey

The repo is marked MIT.

The first link is the results of a survey.

The second and third links make the argument that churches increase the health of the people who participate in it.

Neither says that churches are 'net positives' for a community. A church can easily make it's members healthier, while also hurting the larger community as a whole by occupying very valuable real estate while contributing nothing back to it's non-members.

Citation needed.

Those new gradient bar gauges look great, can't wait to use them on some environmental data.

I just got done with this morning's stream [1]. I've been streaming my open source work for a few months now and it's been fantastic. Having people come and help work on the code with me and contribute commits that I can review with them on the stream is amazing. Having dedicated, scheduled time to work on the projects has been great too. But really, getting to know and interact with the users of the software in real time is like nothing I've experienced before online. We even just released v0.5 of HomelabOS today, in no small part thanks to the help of my twitch viewers/channel[2]!

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/429158038 [2] https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS/tags/v0.5

I agree with your entire post, with one exception. I think you would be shocked at the world-wide potential audience for live streamed basket weaving. See: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-chinese-f...

The article does mention toasters as a particularly bad culprit, but the word `microwave` doesn't appear anywhere in the text. Curious how you have arrived at this connection between two very different devices.

Once I got past the black screen that forces me to disable my ad block, I then get presented with a survey I have to take in order to be able to read the article.

No thanks.

I am curious to see how they recommend handling storage on bare metal k8s.

Yup. I've had this happen on my Verizon business phone. I called Verizon and was told the only recourse was to change my number, but of course the rep acknowledged the spammers could spoof any new number I received just as easily. So Verizon's only answer was basically "Deal with it."

Fantastic work. I will be trying this out in the near future, and may look to contribute code and/or presets as well. Thanks!

According to dictionary.com, the definition of "guys" is "persons of either sex; people"

The definition of "folks" is "people in general"

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

As a big fan of IRC, I would have to say that it doesn't "work" at all when compared to Slack or Discord. You have to be online to receive messages, making it pretty much useless for any serious communication needs. Yes, I am aware of, and run, an IRC bouncer, this is not a real solution for 99% of users.

In the years that have passed since switching to an iPhone without a headphone jack, I have never once needed to use that dongle. Bluetooth more than covers my use cases. So the article is correct, I don't want it, but I also don't need it.

Meanwhile, I've been emailing Instagram yearly for many years now trying to gain control of an account that has had 1 post and 15 followers for YEARS now, that is squatting on an account name that is the same name as a registered LTD that I actually own and use. Crickets.

The 3 key features that most people I know who still use Facebook are Photo Sharing, Event Organizing, and Messaging. The things you listed do one or two, but I don't think any of them do all 3.

".. forcing competitors to make their own data exportable to Facebook would in all likelihood benefit Facebook"

What competitors is the author even talking about here? There are, as far as I'm aware, essentially no competitors left to Facebook anymore.

That being the case, I'm not sure that statement is correct at all. On the contrary, it seems like if FB were required to offer an easily exportable data format, that other services would pop up overnight to try and lure people away from FB onto their (hopefully) more privacy conscious platforms. It would also lower the bar for people to make the switch to something else, as they know their friends can switch just as easily without losing their data.

I agree with the rest of the points of the article, but I don't see how data portability can be anything but a net positive for the consumer.

I would LOVE to see Talkshow integrated with Zulip.

Your argument for why Brahmins are smart and other people aren't is that they have memorized and can recite a body of text? Call me crazy, but I don't consider rote memorization to be a sign of intelligence.

FTA: "As far as I can tell, there are no surviving prints of this newsreel."

I have never seen a page manage to break browser zoom so thoroughly. Zooming to 300% on Firefox actually makes the text smaller.

1. Even if you know how to edit torrc files, I still don't think this is true.

2. Go ahead, nothing will break.

3. True, I have added a note to the script.

4. Umm, is explaining all those slashes simpler than just running a one line command? No. Only 7 lines are even functional, the rest are comments explaining things.

5. If "This file is meant to get SSH access via Tor to an Ubuntu server in one command." doesn't cover for you what it does and why, then you are not the target audience.

Yes, it is a gist for one person. I made it for myself. I thought others would find it useful. I guess that makes me a script kiddie.

The purpose is easy NAT traversal for things like onsite physical servers or CI testing.

Tor is not reserved for nefarious purposes.

Thanks, added. https://gitlab.com/grownetics/devops/blob/master/tor_ssh.sh#...

Yea, I agree. I actually was thinking before I posted this "Someone will ask about that line, I should just add the link to the comments" haha. (Just added it.)

If you read the discussion in the link, this actually does do that. It just replaces the 'empty' service with the actual tor service. So you do get automatic restarts.

Exactly, for simplicity since nothing is in there by default, it gets overwritten. To keep the script nice and short I decided not to add that detection. I would happily merge the change if someone decides they care enough to add it.

I mean, that command is linked to in the actual script itself. I figure if you're already reading it, it's probably pretty safe to run. It's also what, a seven line script? Not too many places to hide anything nefarious in there.

Sure, I suppose the install directions should be more like, wget the file, cat it to be sure gitlab didn't serve you a malicious file instead(?), then run it.

Really not sure what this has to do with malware on Windows though.

Well I personally like to start by writing the documentation first. That way your documentation changes become essentially your 'plan of attack' rather than having to write it out explicitly.

Yes please.